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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Suburbia art review/Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia (live) 1991 [HD]



This piece is a continuation to the previous piece where Neil and Chris are still in the mental hospital or asylum if you will. Someone banged on Neil's cage, he looked knocked out apparently, whatever he was injected in the storyline made him that way. He wakes up looking startled it looked so well done. I thought he would get claustrophobic too since he was like that but I guess he knew he could get out like Chris.You see one of the dancers dressing up like a nurse. Chris looking like a puppy wondering why he's locked up; the lighting is really good here. Then you see Neil getting the electric treatment, but it seems like it was more pleasurable than being in some pain, but that's he looks in my opinion. Nothing to do with out of the gutter like things. It was good acting, because it was believable but more like a pleasurable feel than a painful. I guess it hurt so good I guess, even though that was just the lighting. If he shook faster, and if his eyes were moving around, it would look more like he was in pain. In fact his whole body as well, but since he was holding the microphone, it turned out this way. I can't tell if Chris was getting the treatment too, but I did see red and purple lighting casting on his face. Then the dominant lime green or electric green shined on the dancers because they look mad and crazy looking. I would have thought they would have added them as patients on the previous piece in stead as nurse and mad doctors here, but it's still rather good. I love the green lighting and the medium red shaped houses the colors are opposites on the color wheel. I like the dance sequence here. Now I see that it was Derek that must have banged on the cage where Neil was because he's the controller of the electric treatment. The red house aren't aligned straight but they slightly aligned diagonally. Then the dancers approach Neil and two approached Chris looking at them like curiously crazy.Then you see Pam and Sylvia singing as well as guarding Chris' cage so he won't escape. There is a male black dancer I think and he's wearing a 50's female wig. Then follows more dancers with female wigs of different colors and sizes with glasses or not, I think Chris said Stepford wives. One looks like was on the phone too. I think they symbolize the mothers or housewives. Pam grabs their arm for some reason and Derek starts up the electric shock for Neil again, his reaction is funny, and looks like he wants to say oh no, not again! Derek looks like he's having fun with torturing. Neil pointed out in the commentary that looks like a musical number, true but I think the whole concert seems like a musical. The dancers are walking around in a circle then fall down like they have a seizure or something. Then they skedaddle out the area and then one of the dancers takes off their panties, one is behind the cage, and others bringing baby dolls and doing weird things. Seeing one pushing down their husband and have a hammer, you know what happens next. Chris looks like he wants out but he's stuck. One of them actually approach him but slammed the panties on the cage. One is messing with the baby doll. One with hammer bangs on him as if he was being brutally murdered. Another one pushing a cart in a crazy manner, and other just purely doing some things you would see in an asylum. One ran with a vacuum cleaner. Another one with a lawnmower. One that is on her leisure but is still tortured somehow. Derek finally lets Neil out of the electric shock treatment. The same couple that the wife was beating the husband up with a hammer seems to be making out, now that's have to be surreal right there. I never seen a person beating up someone and then kiss them, well not with a hammer. Then another one let Chris out. There some slight intimacy going on and now they are escaping but having a diversion as well. Then another one have the vacuum in an abnormal position. Then you have Chris, Neil, Pam, Sylvia, and Derek along with the dancers doing a choreographed dance basically walking back and forth with one arm out and doing a weird hand gestures and then some cha- cha moves I think. I guess when they laughed looking at themselves doing this bit, you can tell they had fun with it that and Chris pointed out that it was fun. Then the lights changing and flashing colors meaning they are escaping running a muck and that clock was changing colors; the arms were going crazy too and steam was coming out of it.You see one of the angels appear with a machine gun shooting the clock which makes it the effect. Then it exploded, the way it was setup to look like an animated explosion. I think this was a way for them to help out their human friends out before it's too late. Then you see different lights and beaming on the audience, this is really good, I would like to see this concert in a movie.

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